No I don't think it was temps, always held good psi. I think it and all modern 2 stroke outboards blow a lot more because they have to meet government regulations so they are way too under lubricated. Lets put it this way when I ran outboards just as hard in the 80's and 90's they were 50:1 would smoke like crazy but never would blow. Now days you can't go to any bass open or Costa that at least one guy with a 2 stroke is blown up and the outboards in most cases have less then 100 hours on them.